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Stories from this author
To every thing there is a season
And things of beauty
In the United States and Finland
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Casualties mounting on two fronts
On track to take off
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In archaeology and medicine
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And an opportunity for re-examination
In Tahiti and Botswana
And when to curtail them
Editor’s Note: Glorious Quests
Impossible dreams and heavenly causes
Botched battles and preconceptions overturned
Brass bands and slow travel
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Cataclysms and their consequences
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From the Editor: Curveballs at the Un-Magazine
From the first issue 40 years ago, Smithsonian has blazed its own path through the media landscape
Another side of Kurds and Romans
Wayne Wheeler had a mission
Cowboy Culture and the Universe
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Excavations in Ethiopia and Lockport, New York
Of carnivores and herbivores
Closing in on 40 years
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